Category: F/LOSS
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Bike Route, Hampton – BTC 1.9 mi #lfnw
I’ve ridden this route four times this weekend and it’s not unpleasant. North along Bennet is uphill, but that’s good for us :-) Making zooming down to BTC that much easier! A fun variation on this would be to stop by Squalicum beach and bike up the trail that leads to the BTC parking lot.
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LinuxFest Northwest (Bellingham Herald)
Always great to see the local paper write a few inches about LinuxFest Northwest. Funny ’bout how both “Microsoft Windows” and “Vista” get mentioned in such a short article.
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Tail the Latest Log File
I’m grateful for Cygwin. I wouldn’t know how to do this in cmd–though I should probably learn how to do it in PoSH. find LogFiles/W3SVC1 -type f | xargs ls -1tr | tail -n1 | xargs tail -F I need to make it an alias now….
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Longest MySQL Replication Run? #lfnw #mysql
I’ve heard of people replicating MySQL from coast to coast. I’d love to hear if anyone attending @lfnw has longer replication runs. Happy to share some examples at my talk on Sat. http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/mysql-performance-and-availability
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Crazy mod_rewrite examples? #lfnw #opensource
I’d love to see some wacked mod_rewrite uses! Got one? I’ll put them on screen on Sun @lfnw http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/using-apache-modrewrite-ninja
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: Apache Rewrites
Apache Rewrites — for Ninjas! This session is an overview of using Apache mod_rewrite, driven mostly by your interests and questions. Your Questions, Your Interests? The simple difference between rewrites and redirects. You can specify an redirection in a few ways, and they don’t need to be RewriteRules. You can use an Alias directive to…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: MySQL Buffet
MySQL Buffet This session covers topics in MySQL high availability and performance, centered mostly on your interests and questions. Your Questions? Your Interests? MySQL is a large topic and we can do a thumbnail overview followed by specific topics you’re interested in. I’ve listed the topics below in what I believe are the most important…
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When NOT to Use a SAN?
The vast number of filesystems, distributed file systems, and network replication schemes available for Linux all come with learning curves and caveats. When does one actually want to avoid merely picking out an average SAN solution and go with a Linux oriented distributed storage solution like Gluster or NFS on DRBD?
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What Prizes Will LinuxFest Northwest 2010 Behold?
I enjoyed taking Liam to LinuxFest Northwest 2009. I won i Core i7 system at the raffle there! I don’t expect to win such a thing again. I thought I’d just post a screenshot, because Compiz is just so cool. It runs BOINC pretty well: top – 21:07:17 up 2 days, 9:08, 2 users, load…
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Checking the Ends of Files
Bash command displays the end of files written recently: find -type f -mtime -1 | xargs ls -tra | tail | xargs tail